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53% of Muslim men are depending upon the kuffar. It's the jiyza. It's the duty of non-Muslim to pay for the upkeep of the non-Muslim. Muslim Economic Activity in the UK Islam vs. Europe  Politicians constantly argue that immigration brings economic benefits. Even if that were true in general, it clear that Muslim immigration does not. Here are links to a few relevant sources of information on the subject: MigrationWatch reports that: "For example, compared with the UK average of 22% of the working age population being economically inactive, Somali, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Iranian immigrants are likely to be 81%,...

Updated at 8 p.m. ET: NEW YORK - A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation, authorities said. The suspect, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. on a student visa in January for the specific purpose of launching a terror attack here, authorities said. He allegedly told an undercover agent last month that he hoped the attack would disrupt...

If we look at what's skyrocketed in price (healthcare, college tuition), we find they are government funded and supported. This is not a coincidence. Inflation is generally viewed as a monetary phenomenon (print money excessively and you get inflation), but let's use a very simple definition: any loss of purchasing power. If your income buys fewer goods and services, for whatever mix of reasons (geopolitical, weather, monetary, fiscal, etc.), that's inflation "on the ground." Consider this breakdown of the components that together make up the standard measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI): (courtesy of dshort.com) What are the...

The Jihad Will Be YouTubed by Raffaello Pantucci December 15, 2011 FOREIGN POLICY - The AFPAK Channel SNIPPET: "While clearly the technology to make such videos is something that is universal, it does seem as though it is aspirant jihadists in the West who find it easiest to use. There was no evidence that Gul was being directed by foreign terrorist organizations to produce his material, and his case shows the continued existence of young Westerners producing radical material on their own. It may indeed be the case that the virtual armies have yet to fully emerge as active warriors...

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

Hamas calls for "economic Jihad" against the U.S. Yoni Fighel ICT Researcher Recently, it was announced that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was probing several "criminal enterprises" associated with the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas. The investigation, reportedly undertaken at the request of a "foreign intelligence services. FBI director for counterterrorism John Pistole, testifying before a hearing n the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said that the investigation led to the thwarting of four separate terrorist attacks--resumably in Israel, though the country was not identified. Investigators traced financial transactions of people preparing terrorist strikes and came up with "specific...

Does the economy need a stimulus plan? Yes. Is this the right one? No, not by any measure! Does the plan HAVE to be on Obama’s (the Usurper) desk by February 16th? No! Does anyone on Main Street, anyone with a modicum of common sense believe this plan will work? No! [...]What we are supposed to do is to allow billions of dollars to flow out of the treasury. We are to cross our fingers the money will be spent intelligently because, you see, the banks did such a bang up job doing that with the first $350 billion. The...

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NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are frustrated with the government's latest bank bailout plan—and showing it by unloading stocks.

Stimulating As suitablyflip.com notes, the $813 billion "stimulus" passed by the House will cost $1.17 trillion once borrowing costs are added. That's enough to buy every U.S. household a 42-inch plasma TV, a Nintendo Wii, a 3-gig iPhone and a year of car insurance, groceries, and cable TV, Internet and phone service. Adjusted for inflation, this one bill is bigger than the New Deal and the Iraq war combined. If the $18 billion in bonuses paid by Wall Street firms with taxpayer money were shameful, and they were, then what describes the "stimulus"? Euphemizers In a letter last week to...

Much has been made in recent days about what the Senate did to change — there's that word again — the economic-"stimulus" package, and how tough it may be to reconcile the $827,000,000,000 Sen- ate version, which is expected to be approved today, with the $819,000,000,000 bill the House passed in late January. But the proposals differ by degree, not philosophy. The Senate added more tax cuts, but like the House version, every reduction is temporary so every beneficiary will get a tax increase by year's end. Moreover, when the Democrats let the Bush tax cuts expire 23 months from...

Here's some of the items that passed in the stimulus package. If the object of this stimulus was to create jobs, then you have to wonder what jobs are being created with some of the stuff that was included in this spending nightmare! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you very much!

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Pressuring Congress by the day, President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed the news that the Senate had passed its economic stimulus bill but cautioned that tough negotiations on a final deal remain. He said hurting Americans "need action, and they need it now."

US unveils new $1.5 trillion plan US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled a comprehensive $1.5 trillion (£1.02 trillion) bank bail-out plan to beat the financial crisis. Under the plan, the size of a key Federal Reserve lending program will be expanded to $1 trillion [EM] from $200bn. In addition, a public-private investment fund of $500bn will be created to absorb banks' toxic assets. "Right now critical parts of our financial system are damaged," Mr Geithner said. "Instead of catalyzing recovery, the financial system is working against recovery, and that's the dangerous dynamic we need to change," he added. Leading...

The US Senate has passed an economic stimulus plan expected to cost some $838bn (£573bn). The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 61-37 to approve the measure, with few Republicans opting to back it. Tough negotiations are now expected in order to reconcile the Senate measure with legislation passed by the House of Representatives nearly two weeks ago. President Barack Obama has said the package will create up to four million jobs and help lift the economy. The president has said he wants the final package to reach his desk by a deadline of 16 February. The House and Senate measures are largely...

The US Senate has passed an economic stimulus plan expected to cost more than $800bn (£541bn).

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February 8, 2009 "Tehran Times: "It’s time for some economic jihad. Let’s destroy a corporation for Palestine."" SNIPPET: "Tehran Times columnist Hamid Golpira has long been a Misunderstander of Islam -- that is, he believes that jihad involves warfare and the subjugation of infidels, the elements of that concept that Western apologists, both Muslim and non-Muslim, are so keen to deny even exist. In 2004 he wrote this in the Tehran Times about how Muslims should deal with infidels: First we must invite them to Islam. Even if they declare war against us, we should invite them to Islam by...

ETROIT, Aug. 29 — For nearly a year, the three foreigners picked up at an apartment here a week after the Sept. 11 attacks seemed like just another group of Arab men caught up in the government dragnet. They languished in prison while facing charges that seemed minor; federal agents had actually been looking for the previous occupant when they raided the apartment.But at least one thing appears to have separated the Detroit trio from hundreds of other Arabs swept up by the government in the last year: a cooperative witness. A fourth Arab man who once lived with...